Black man who raped, shot White lady and tried to set White man on fire. The criminal may have been implicated in other attacks.

( both articles are short excerpts from the The Dallas Morning News ).

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July 13 2002

The brutal sexual assault of a woman abducted last month near Mountain Creek Lake as she sat in a car with her boyfriend may be connected to a similar attack two weeks earlier, police said Tuesday. Police determined that the crimes may have been committed by the same man because of the brutality of the attacks and the fact that the victims were left near Bexar Lake in South Dallas, said Lt. Debra Knapp, who oversees the sexual assaults unit.
The violent attack on the Dallas couple parked in the Mountain Creek area about 2 a.m. June 15 might have been racially motivated, according to police reports. A 19-year-old woman was kidnapped, raped and shot, and a 20-year-old man with her was left in a burning vehicle, police said. The male victim told police that the attacker told him the attacker told him that he was taking revenge on white people . Police said they had not found any cases that match the man's account.
The couple told police that the man approached their truck in a wooded area near Interstate 20 and Spur 408 about 2 a.m. and ordered the woman out at gunpoint. He sexually assaulted her and set fire to the vehicle after tying the man up in the bed of the truck, they said. The man escaped and stopped a motorist for help. The attacker took the woman to South Dallas in a white pickup and shot her. She walked to a city building in the 6500 block of Bexar Street.

The first attack occurred about 9:30 a.m. June 2 when a man offered a woman walking along South Lamar Street a ride. She accepted and was driven to Bexar Lake, where she was tied, beaten and sexually assaulted. The women describe their attacker as a black male with close-cut hair and a medium build. He is 38 to 50 years old and is 5-10 to 6-1. He wears earrings in both ears.